Cooking tips thread

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This is a thread for cooking tips. If you want to take a cooking class see

@anon4362788 i posted a link to your cooking class. If you would prefer me not to do so just let me know and I’ll remove the link.

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My first tip: The older your eggs are the easier they are to peel once boiled. Guys feel free to post your tips.

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Add a dash of salt in your grease before frying something to keep it from popping so bad.

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Oh wow. I never heard of that. That’s a great tip

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As @Charles_Foster said: keep your knives in sharp condition. It makes a world of difference. Pocket sharpeners can be bought for under 20 USD. No need for an expensive setup or machine.

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If my knives need sharpening every other day of use.
Is the knife dead?

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Y’all know those leaves that are attached to the head of cauliflower? Y’all can chop those up and fry them. There actually pretty good

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I always boil the salted water first before adding in the eggs and then once cooked, put the eggs directly in ice water for a half hour. They really peel easily after that. I also peel them in running cold water. Works great.

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Oh thank you for this. I’m getting better but still have problems boiling eggs.

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@anon4362788 I put cabbage and ham to slow boil on the stove. Question: the ham already has loads of salt. Do I need to add salt or will the salt in the ham suffice?

I’m just askin cos I know you’re a southern girl and I figure you might know.

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I never salt my ham and cabbage.

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Add sugar when boiling carrots. Gives them a beautiful taste. Salt doesn’t give them much flavour whereas sugar really does give them a lovely flavour x

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Pizza pops.

  1. Take out of freezer
  2. Remove wrapper
  3. Put 2 pizza pops on plate
  4. Microwave for 70 seconds
  5. Flip pizza pops over
  6. Microwave for 70 seconds
  7. Eat de pizza popzzzz
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Thanks. I ended up just using maybe 2 tsp in a big pot. It came out pretty good

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Wash your rice before boiling.

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I’ve never heard of that. Just run it under cold water?

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I heard that if you salt the water you are boiling the eggs in they will never turn green

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I dump the boiling water out of the eggs, run cold water in the pan till it’s all cooled down, then use the handle of the pan to start cracking the eggs and I drop them back in the cool water. Cracked shell, hot egg, cool water, they practically jump out of the shells. I just put my hand in the cool water and coax them out of the shells and six eggs takes me just a couple minutes usually.

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Yeah run it under cold water…gets rid of the starches and helps cooking.

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Rinsing or washing rice removes that excess starch, resulting in grains that are more separate when cooked . (There’s the added benefit that rinsing rice before cooking can reduce the level of arsenic, but FDA research shows that the impact is minimal on the cooked grain.)

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